Winning a gold medal on the fourth board for India at the Budapest Chess Olympiad, which helped the Indian ... saw her finish ahead of even international heavy-hitters like Alexandra Kosteniuk and ...

But the manner in which he won the title raised several eyebrows across the chess world, with the five-time world champion sharing the title with Russian Grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi after a viral ...

I offered a draw and she wanted to play on,” Vaishali added. Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, who has had a role to play in Vaishali’s rise through the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA) ...

Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No1 chess player, has triggered a major backlash after cutting short a final to share a world championship title with his rival. The 34-year-old Norwegian grandmaster ...

Chess players were beside themselves when Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi decided to end the FIDE championship in a tie. The 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship was played on the night of New ...

This is Carlsen's eighth Blitz title (and 18th major chess tournament triumph) while this is Nepomniachtchi first. This meant that serial runner up Nepomniachtchi (three times in Rapid ...

Alexandra, 51, and Keanu, 60, first became acquainted at a dinner party in 2009 and collaborated on two art books together before going red carpet official in 2019. However in the intervening ...

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NEW YORK – Chess great Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York, after initially quitting following governing body Fide’s decision to bar him ...

Chess great Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after initially quitting following governing body FIDE's decision to bar him for wearing jeans ...

NEW YORK — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a ...